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    The surname Hockley

    An English place surname, carried by 514 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex H240

    Hockley: #42,237 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Hockley #42,237, 514 people Hockley: #42,237 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#100Jimenez Hockley #42,237, 514 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Hockley is more common than 74% of them.

    Origin

    English origin

    From either the Old English personal name Hocca or hocc (“mallow”) + lēah (“woodland clearing, glade”).

    Hockley is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.

    One of 1,446 English surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 514 people named Hockley in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 600,672 Americans. That is up 13% since 2000, when the Census counted 457.

    #42,237
    rank among US surnames
    514
    people in 2010
    0.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    +12.5%
    change since 2000 (was #44,350)

    Who is named Hockley

    Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

    87% of people named Hockley identified as white (not Hispanic), 6.8% as Black (not Hispanic) and 3.5% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 87%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 6.8%
    • Two or more races 3.5%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.9%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Hockley

    Hockley has the Soundex code H240, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code H240.

    Other English surnames

    All 1,446 English surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Hockley come from?
    From either the Old English personal name Hocca or hocc (“mallow”) + lēah (“woodland clearing, glade”).
    How common is the surname Hockley?
    514 people in the United States had the surname Hockley in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 600,672 Americans. It ranked 42,237th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Hockley?
    In the 2010 Census, 87% of people named Hockley identified as white (not Hispanic), and 6.8% as Black (not Hispanic).
    What type of surname is Hockley?
    Hockley is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Hockley getting more or less common?
    More common. 457 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 514 in 2010, up 13%.